James St Club - Page 2

straycat · 02-11-2005, 16:23

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You can't say Ossy is a dying town.

Sorry I have to disagree, Ossie is on its A*$. Anyone who wants to pay over the odds to live here want there heads reading. Although Ossie does have its exciting attractions like the Straits Club (vacancy for steward) so anyone who would like to pay over the Odds to live here, here are the directions to 'Buy The House' On Union Road.

First Pass the boarded up Commercial pub in Church and travel up Market Street passed the vandalised train station and onto Union Road. You will know when Union Road starts when you see the Burnt out boarded up shell called the Palladium, once passed that you will see numerous car parks where buildings like a petrol station and a row of colliers cottages once stood, now once you pass the School with the incorrect time on the clock open your car window and you may get a smell of the latest Arson attack on Foxhill nature reserve. Carry straight on and you will pass a overgrown boarded up Old Folks home on your left, once passed the grubby Town Hall look for a big green sign on the shop telling you that you can buy a gun there. Once passed there if you look to your left before you get to the rat infested tinker brook you will see the burnt out shell of Rhyddings Mill. After the rats you will pass the boarded up wrecked Fire Station on your right and if your lucky you might get to see a gypsy emptying his toilet over the wall onto the playing field, although the gypsies aren't always there and are often replaced with several hundred disposable nappies. Carry on up the road and if you slow down passed the Co-op you will see the boarded up James Street Club on the right, speed up pass Thomas St where the boarded up New Inn Pub is and 'Buy The House' is on the left at the junction with Roe Greave Road just after the tenth takeaway, if you get to the boarded up pickle factory you've gone to far, then you can buy my terraced house for £70k.

The only sure thing about Ossie besides the all the daffodils in Rhyddings park being destroyed by the usual mindless vandals come the spring, is that James St won't be the last pub to close its doors in this dying town.

Bazf · 02-11-2005, 17:31

Someones bitter and twisted, where you moving to that booming town of Manchester or the affluent midlands?

mez · 02-11-2005, 17:56

dissolusioned or what?

straycat · 02-11-2005, 18:07

No I was thinking of somewhere like Florida. Give me the hurricanes and aligators anyday.

straycat · 02-11-2005, 18:14

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dissolusioned or what?

Try living here mez, at least Accrington is being tidied up and money is being spent.

park381 · 02-11-2005, 18:49

Ossy Dying, then who is keeping all these booze shops going, and take aways

firefighter753 · 02-11-2005, 19:19

I think its the booze shops thats closing the pubs lol, I agree though Ossie has got a vandalism problem cctv and a police presence would do for starters. And I think the friends of Rhyddings park will prevent any furthur vandalism being carried out in the park.

mez · 02-11-2005, 19:33

had all that 2yrs ago round here..........one answer ........keep ringing the police , ours is good now.

straycat · 02-11-2005, 19:39

I am sorry but we live in a town full of eyesores and its about time some money was spent, can't wait to see the christmas lights.

[QUOTEthen who is keeping all these booze shops going, and take aways][/QUOTE]

Teenage drinkers and free delivery to Accrington.

Try getting a nice piece of cod on a Monday night.

park381 · 02-11-2005, 19:40

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Originally Posted by firefighter753

I think its the booze shops thats closing the pubs lol, I agree though Ossie has got a vandalism problem cctv and a police presence would do for starters. And I think the friends of Rhyddings park will prevent any furthur vandalism being carried out in the park.

Hope you are right on the friends of rhyddings park, would hate to see any good work undone by vandals, but on the cctv bit is there not a camera on a column outside village pantry, or does it not work now. Due to cost in maintaining the optic link back to the police station?

cashman · 02-11-2005, 23:32

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Originally Posted by straycat

I am sorry but we live in a town full of eyesores and its about time some money was spent, can't wait to see the christmas lights.

Teenage drinkers and free delivery to Accrington.

Try getting a nice piece of cod on a Monday night.

yeh but that apart its alright,

garinda · 02-11-2005, 23:43

Jusy having checked Straycat's profile, I've realised his problem.

He's forty next month, bless.

He's not bitter, it's just the start of his mid-life crisis.

ossy kid · 03-11-2005, 06:02

I was a member of James St W.M.C. for over 30 years, played with their snooker team and the bowling team. It was busy most nights and packed every weekend. The problem started when they tried to change things in the late eighties early nineties plus steward problems. A great pity but a sign of the times.

straycat · 03-11-2005, 09:48

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He's not bitter, it's just the start of his mid-life crisis.

I know, now I'm nearly old enough to start enjoying working mens clubs.

No seriously it breaks my heart everytime I see our old fire station etc.

Come on Britcliffe sort it out.

garinda · 03-11-2005, 11:34

I will agree that Peel Court looks awful. It's interesting to note that all the private nursing homes are flurishing, it's only the one that was run by the council that lies empty. It was also in the Observer that someone has put in plans to turn it into flats.
As for the fire station which is also for sale, I can't imagine what else it could be besides a garage.

On just one stretch of Union road, there has recently opened a barbers, an opticians, an aromatherapists, and a made to measure dress shop, hardly the sign of a town in decline.
Plus in the pubs on the main road you can be three deep at the bar trying to buy a drink.